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gamesome /ˈɡeɪms(ə)m /adjectivePlayful and merry: gamesome leaps and frolics...- It's a gamesome synonymicon for the philologist and verbomaniac.
- No whale species is more active than the humpback, causing Herman Melville in Moby Dick to call them ‘the most lighthearted and gamesome of all the whales.’
- But he was a gamesome professor, a huntsman, a man of the field; also he was wedded to his lusts, which he did also venture to keep, rather than the birthright.
Derivatives gamesomely adverb ...- ‘You may come to rue being so cavalier,’ he gamesomely warned him.
gamesomeness noun ...- But he has not become a fool, nor has he lost all his malice - even though it now takes the form of malicious gamesomeness.
- In the midst of all that glee and gamesomeness it was strange to see one standing joyless.
- Needless to say, the uncertainty that surrounded the potential magnitude of the payoffs added a rather interesting sense of gamesomeness to the plan.
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